Reinforcing nylon 6 via surface-initiated anionic ring-opening polymerization from stacked-cup carbon nanofibers

• Main Authors: Huang, Shu, Toh, Cher Ling, Yang, Liping, Phua, Silei, Zhou, Rui, Dasari, Aravind, Lu, Xuehong
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: A. Carbon fibers; A. Nanocomposites
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81631; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40886
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article reports the preparation of nylon 6/stacked-cup carbon nanofiber (CNF) nanocomposites via in situ anionic ring-opening polymerization partially initiated from caprolactam-functionalized CNFs. As a result of the successful functionalization of CNF surface, good dispersion of the CNFs was...